San Diego Dining, Day Two

Jan. 4:
The first part of the day was spent museuming and researching that echt San Diego specialty, the Fish Taco; we asked cab drivers, museum guards, even waiters in other restaurants. There was a good consensus for Rubio's, and Wahoo's received special mention, but we would have needed a car and lots of time to get to either. So we had a good example of the genre at the Tin Fish downtown, which also serves tasty waffle-cut fried potatoes and oddly sweet but edible coleslaw.
That evening's dinner was a party in honor of Larissa Bonfante, Barbara's undergraduate archaeology teacher, who had just won the AIA gold medal. Ili Nagy wisely organized the celebration in a beautiful condo complex away from the Marriott, and the food was superb: cold poached sides of salmon, asparagus, and various patés and quiches, accompanied by champagne and followed by petits fours. It was an actual celebratory dinner, rather than the mingy hors d'oeuvres we would have gotten at the hotel.